I. The Dream of a Summer Day II. With Kyūshū Students III. At Hakata IV. Of the Eternal Feminine V. Bits of Life and Death VI. The Stone Buddha VII. Jiujutsu VIII. The Bed Bridal IX. A Wish fulfilled X. In Yokohama XI. Yuko: A Reminiscence The hotel seemed to me a paradise, and the maids thereof celestial beings. This was because I had just fled away from one of the Open Ports, where I had ventured to seek comfort in a European hotel, supplied with all "modern improvements." To find myself at ease once more in a yukata, seated upon cool, soft matting, waited upon by sweet-voiced girls, and surrounded by things of beauty, was therefore like a redemption from all the sorrows of the nineteenth…
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